On 9/6/19 9:34 AM, fsmithred wrote:
> On 9/6/19 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:00:08AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
>>> On 9/6/19 8:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>>> I've got buster on a partition I never use and was thinking of deleting.
>>>> I could try crossgrading to beowulf before I delete it.
>>>> Would that help?  It would not likely get any actual usage to discover
>>>> problems beyond the actual crossgrade itself.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, please. And maybe tee the output to a log file in case you get
>>> something "interesting".
>>
>> OK.  But I should maybe use the script command.
>> Are there instructions already?  Or is it the usual change the
>> apt-sources, update, and upgrade?
>> and how should I point to the beowulf repositories?  I've noticed
>> devuan repositories in different locations before, and I'm not entirely
>> sure the ones I'm using on my pure-devuan beowulf are the
>> current official ones.
>>
>
> I've upgraded Refracta-9 (ascii, xfce, without metapackages) with the
> follwing:
>
> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main
> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main
>
> apt update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> reboot
>
> Notes:
> - I have linux-image-amd64 installed, so I got the new kernel
> automatically. Make sure you get 4.19-whatever.
> - There's no beowulf-updates or beowulf-backports yet. Leave those lines
> commented out if you have them.
> - I used "apt" to update for less typing; I used "apt-get" out of habit.
> If you get stuck with conficts, try 'aptitude -s full-upgrade' to see if
> it offers a better solution. You could also do a plain upgrade before the
> dist-upgrade, but it may not be necessary.
> - I already know that I contradicted myself, thanks. (In case someone
> wanted to point out that linux-image-amd64 is a metapackage.)
>
>
> fsmithred

***** Need More Coffee *****

Those are very nice instructions I wrote, but they're for devuan upgrade,
not migration from beowulf.

I'll try again after another cup.

fsmithred